The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-05-04
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Gen. Phil Sheridan is making up party
OF friends to take a long horseback ride
down through the Shenandoah Valley. the
scene of his old caylary exploits. The marty
VIII start some time next month Senator
Don Cameron will be one Of the number.
Canon Wiiberforce, the son of the great
preacher Wilberforce, and brother of the
| pisnop OF Newcastle, also rector Of St. Ma
| rvs Church, Southampton, England, is in
6oston. de will remain in this country
ABOUT SIX weeks, and during his stay hare
| VIII deliver series of lectures to raise fund
Tor the restoration of his church.
| The evidences are many that Miss Winnie
Davis is exceedingly popular in the South A
reception rendered to her at Chattanooga.
Tenn, recently, was one of the most brilliant
social events in the history of the city. More
than five hundred invitations were issued
ana the reception was attended by all the
leading citizens.
Young Farmer Andrews Of Rails county,
NO., driving int town, saw a fine looking
young woman feeding chickens. She waved
her hand at him and he bowed in return. A
storekeepor in town told him the maiden's
name and rode back with him and introduced
him. Andrews stayed to supper, and before
ne ieit had popped the question and been ac-
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urday they were married.
The experiments that the physicians are
everywhere making with injections of car
eonic acid gas for the cure of consumption
will be watched with the intensest interest.
The Philadelphia faculty report themselves
unable to state that, as the result of their ex-
periments, the treatment can be considered a
cure, Two physicians OF Pittsburg, Pa, who
nave been QYnArima0finO
report the most gratifying results"
Before marrying Miss Lucy Work, Mr..
Cooper Hewitt. the son of Mayor Hewitt, of
New York, gave his farewell bachelor din
| ner TO his best man and ushers. Miss Work
| gave farewell dinner to her bridesmaids.
No ladies were hidden to the former feast
and no gentlemen to the latter. Mr.. Hew-
tits dinner was given at Delmonico's, and
Miss Works at her fathers residence This
new custom OF a maiden's bidding farewell
to her friends at dinner will probably soon
be generally adopted.
Mark Twain's successful reading tour two
years ago, in company with Mr.. George W.
Cable, was his own business venture, and by
1t he Noted, clear of all expenses, $4,000
from the first week of November to the first
week Of March following He paid Mr.. Ca
$500 week and his expenses. 1t was he
WIN HToI lulrUuuceu MI. CaDle 10 tne DuSI-
ness of public reading. having started him in
Hartford the year before the joint tour. His
idea was that two authors on platform,
reading from their own works, would be less
monotonous, and therefore more attractive,
than one.
The Grant relics, which have been for sew
eral months safely guarded in one of the pri-
vate rooms of the National Museum are now
placed on public exhibition at Washington.
Two handsome plush-lined cases, filed with
articles from the collection are placed in the
north hall of the museum near the main en-
trance. They contain the presentation
swords, gold-headed canes, caskets, medal
lions, and many other costly and elegant ar
tlcles presented by different people at differ
ent times to Gen. Grant. Many of these arti-
cles are souvenirs of his trip around the
Morld. There is splendid collection Of Japa-
nese CONS, one series of seven pieces old Jap
snsse goid coins OF huge size, being valued
~ SS,U. Ihsrs are alSe invitation cards,
menu cares and reminders Of entertainments
gwen IN ms honor, engrossed on gold plates.
one invitation card to masked bali given al |
San francisco upon Gen. Grants arrival at
that city on his return from his lannon's TOM
Is engraved on solid gold, and was encloSed
In a silver envelope with the address en-
grayed.